Plant Calendula officinalis (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Calendula; Pot-Marigold

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
MUCILAGE	3	Flower	not available	15000.0	-1.61	Duke, 1992 *
MUTATOCHROME	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUTAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	10300.0	16100.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
NARCISSIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOLYCOPENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEAN-12-ENE-3BETA,16BETA,28-TRIOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	42300.0	73000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	38900.0	67000.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	12000.0	20500.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Flower	not available	6400.0	-1.58	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSI-TARAXASTEROL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiasthmatic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	18	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	4	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.